San Francisco Giants @ Baltimore Orioles (game 2)

During Tuesday's game, it was actually drizzling throughout the game, although fortunately, I was just about under the overhang of the top deck, so my seat wasn't wet and I wasn't rained on.  It was warm and humid again this evening and rain started to be in the air as I was walking along to the stadium.

When it's raining the ushers in each club level section accompany you to your seat and dry it off for you, and most people tip a $1 per seat for this service.  I didn't need that service yesterday, though.  However, when I found where my seat was, it was the one empty seat in the middle of a full row.

I was so hot that I decided to stay in the air-conditioned concourse instead for a bit to recover.  In the end, I walked all the way around looking for a chair in one of the alcoves all around the club level, but they were all in use at the time - I took this photo after the game was over and everybody was streaming out of the park.

In the end, I found an almost entirely empty section right by the foul pole that  I could sit in for a bit.  I had to wipe my own seat off all the way out here!  However, it was nice knowing that I could go in and out without disturbing anybody else.

 It was Bark at the Park night, so there were several people with dogs down on the bottom tier.  Various in-game features were modified to celebrate this, including the usually-animated hot dog race on the screen - which was an actual race with 3 hot dog costumes attached to dogs.

Last time we put up a double-digit score, we followed it up by scoring zero the next three games!  So I wasn't sure what to expect tonight.  Mike Yastrzemski managed to repeat his feat from the night before, leading off the game with another home run to put the Giants up 1-0 immediately.  I missed it again.

Again, we had excellent starting pitching, this time from Hayden Birdsong - a terrific name, and strange that a few years ago, we had a pitcher named Ryan Vogelsong (where "Vogel" is the German for "bird"!)  

In total, we scored 5 and just about managed to hold Baltimore down, so by the end of the game, the Giants hung on for a 5-3 win.  So in two nights here, I've seen twice as many wins as I saw in a week in San Francisco!